Curry Festival Brick Lane 2012 – ubiCabs

The Curry Festival comes to the curry mile, and ubiCabs is loosening its belt a couple of notches for a trip to Brick Lane this week.

Much Curry

Sitting in ubiHQ, munching a Kati Roll or several, has got us (me, I ate them all myself) thinking about the Brick Lane Curry Festival. Even if our rolls do come from Soho, rather than the curry mile/curry mecca in E1, fine Indian/Bangladeshi food is fine Indian/Bangladeshi food, and we want more of it.

Kicking off on Tuesday 8th May with a street party to coincide with the Baishaki Mela Bangladeshi New Year celebrations, the festival is off to an alfresco flying start. There’ll be music everywhere. There’ll be swinging, swaying, and records playing, dining in the street. No dress code, as long as you turn up.

This year, the festival’s 11th, sees the introduction of a giant Pitta Market (in a giant pitta, volume of pittas, different meaning? Unclear) in Allen’s Fields, showcasing home cooked delicacies. There’s a fairground, music stages and picnic area at Weavers Fields too. The whole thing runs until the 15th, so that’s plenty of time to try anything that takes your fancy.

A giant pitta

For those with a curry fix that can’t be sated by a week of non-stop munching, or the potentially greater demographic who can’t make it to Brick Lane on those dates, here’s some content on fine curry we’ve collected.

If you’re considering cooking a curry of your own to bring a bit of festival into your own house, or perhaps because you’re planning to set up a sham restaurant near Brick Lane and make money off the back of it a la Del Boy (do not do this), have a look at this site for direct delivery ingredients. There’s a sensible guide to putting good curries together on there too.

A curry bun. Incredible. Japanese, so off topic, but go on, give the link a click.

After all that, we assume you’re going to be too full of curry to move. That’s our evil plan see? Entice you all to stuff yourselves so full of curry you have to get a minicab home. Download the ubicabs app on iPhone or Android, or book online at ubicabs.com